As the clock ticked, the sun emerged from the clouds and slowly set westward. In the evening, the peaceful town is dyed a fiery red.

Liu Yanshi walked out of the first unknown number of households, wiped the fine sweat on his forehead, and estimated in his heart that the data was almost collected, and then set off towards the gate of the town. She and Mr. Demon agreed to meet outside the town before dark.

Walking on the bluestone path with a camera that was nearly full of memory, Liu Yanshi began to recall today's harvest: there were many people deceived by the fraudster named Zhong Tianxing, and among the people interviewed, seventy or eighty percent of them had asked Master Zhong to see fortune telling, and the incense money given out was millions or tens of thousands, and most of them were middle-aged women, mothers-in-law and aunts.

There is a large shade of trees in front of you, and you can feel the breeze as you pass by, which seems to be a little cool. Liu Yanshi looked up at the locust tree, the green shade was mixed with a few patches of withered yellow, and she knew that summer was coming to an end.

Liu Yanshi suddenly remembered that Mr. Demon seemed to have said that they would not stay in the town tonight, and would set up a tent on the mountain. This reminded her of the mountain ghosts mentioned by Li Lijuan. With a faint feeling of uneasiness in her heart, she quickened her pace and walked to the gazebo outside the town.

And Shi Zuo arrived in Hejia Town, about an hour later.

His body was drenched in sweat, as if he had just swam out of the river. It was getting late, and when I squinted, I could see the quiet figures in the gazebo. When I got closer, I found that it was Liu Yanshi sitting on the stone steps of the pavilion, curled up, holding his mobile phone and playing PUBG.

"You're still going to play this?"

"Why not?" Liu Yanshi hurriedly raised her head and glanced at him.

"It doesn't look like you."

"Not like? What do you think I'm going to play? As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Yanshi exclaimed "ah" and became a courier with honor.

"Miracle Nuan, love and producers or something, right?"

"It's not because you're too slow, I'm really bored, so I'll download it." Liu Yanshi glanced at him again, and said "I'm not playing, bye-bye" to the player in the game voice, and stood up, only to see that Mr. Demon had an extra hiking bag on his back that he got out of nowhere.

"I'm sorry," Shi Zuocai smiled, but there was no guilt on his face:

"I was chased by monkeys in the mountains for a long time."

Liu Yanshi was stunned: "Monkey? ”

"Well, monkey."

"There are monkeys on the mountain?!"

Shi Zuocai said with a humble eye: "Which mountain does not have monkeys?" ”

"So why are you being chased by monkeys?"

"Well, that's a long story." Shi Zuocai touched his nose: "There was an accident during the monitoring, I delayed a little time, I was afraid that I would miss the point where I would meet you, so I decided to take a shortcut through the forest, and I collided with a monkey." ”

Liu Yan looked at the long "Huh?" With a sigh, eyes wandering around him with a strong sense of scrutiny, as if he didn't quite believe the guy's vague explanation. After a while, Liu Yanshi suddenly remembered something, and exclaimed "ah":

"That's right! Shi Zuocai, you don't really plan to sleep on the mountain tonight, do you? ”

"Any questions?" Mr. Demon lazily said:

"As I said, tomorrow's plan is crucial, we must not show up in the town in advance, the protagonist will only appear at the end, understand?"

"You can't live on the mountain!"

"Where do you live if you don't live in the mountains? Huai County next door is dozens of kilometers away from here, not to mention walking, even if there is a bus, it will take three or four hours to climb over the mountain, where is so much time. ”

Liu Yanshi said anxiously: "But there are mountain ghosts on the mountain!" ”

Shi Zuocai was stunned.

"What is the mountain?"

"Mountain! Ghost! Liu Yanshi's voice raised an octave: "It's dangerous to live in the mountains at night!" Mountain ghosts can eat people! ”

Mr. Demon was silent for nearly half a minute, slowly lowered his head, covered his face with his hands, and his back began to twitch. Liu Yanshi was stunned and looked at him blankly for a while, but Shi Zuocai finally couldn't hold it anymore, raised his head and laughed breathlessly.

"You're not, aren't you? Do you believe all my casual nonsense? What kind of bullshit mountain ghost, isn't that a thing to coax children? ”

Liu Yan's face was red, and he said:

"It's true! I've already inquired in the town, and some time ago there were people who went up the mountain in the middle of the night and disappeared, and people said that there would be mountain ghosts attacking people in the mountains at night...... Don't laugh! Be serious! ”

"Good, good." Shi Zuocai coughed twice, stepped forward with a stiff face, and suddenly reached out and touched Liu Yanshi's forehead.

"It's not hot, did you take the wrong medicine?"

Liu Yan looked at Mimi and laughed, with murderous aura in his smile, and at the same time stretched out his hands to pinch the soft flesh on his waist, twisted it half a circle at one hundred and eighty degrees, and only then did Zuo babble and scream in pain.

"If you don't believe it, just wait and regret it!"

Shi Zuocai suddenly sighed:

"If you're really so scared, I'll prove it to you tonight."

As he spoke, he turned around and walked towards the mountain, Liu Yanshi was stunned, picked up his backpack and followed:

"Hey! Shi Zuocai! Feed! ”

……

On a cliff halfway up the mountainside, Shi Zuo found an open field and began to set up a tent. He took the tent out of his hiking bag and used his phone to check the instructions and precautions while fiddling with the tent's stand. Liu Yanshi tried every means to dissuade him, so he had to squat next to him angrily and use a branch to make a fire.

Half an hour later, the tent had been set up, but Liu Yan saw only a few sparks in front of him, and the evening breeze blew away with the wind. Seeing this, Mr. Demon laughed uncontrollably, took the fire fold from her hand, rearranged the dead branch, squatted down with his back to the tuyere, took out a paper towel from his pocket and lit it, threw it into the middle of the dead branch, fanned it a few times, and the flames came out.

"Your branches are not properly arranged, there is no space in the middle, the fire cannot touch the air, and of course it will be extinguished quickly."

Liu Yanshi didn't speak, and grimaced at him. Mr. Demon suddenly approached her, blinking her eyes in fright, he reached out again, and when he touched Liu Yanshi's mouth, there was a crispy tingling feeling, but it turned out to be two fingers and a pinch, pinching a small piece of soot from the corner of her mouth, frowning and saying:

"You're hungry, aren't you? I won't eat while making a fire, for there is not enough wood. ”

The soot was blown by the wind, and she naturally knew that Shi Zuo was making fun of her. Liu Yanshi smiled sweetly, green tendons appeared on his forehead, and his tone of voice was sweet and greasy:

"I hope you can be a virgin for the rest of your life."

Mr. Demon grinned with bared teeth and didn't speak, but as if he was juggling, he took out an iron pot from his mountaineering bag, many spices, all kinds of fresh ingredients, and even a stand.

"At noon, I went to Huaixian County and bought tents and some messy things." He smiled and said:

"Don't be stunned, come over and help, you can't eat yet."

Liu Yanshi blinked in surprise.